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Historical Event on 1/11/1999

Four DRDO scientists and four pilots aboard an Avro plane on a research test flight are killed as the plane crashes after take-off from the Arakkonam INS Rajali Naval air base in Tamil Nadu.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/26/1992Accord with Bangladesh on Tin Bigha.
4/27/1920Dr. Manibhai Desai, great Gandhian leader and Magssese Awardee, was born.
3/11/1992Dr. Anita B. Bose-Pfaff, daughter of Netaji, declines to accept the 'Bharat Ratna' conferred on her father.
4/30/1958Shiekh Abdulla taken into custody.
3/17/1997A Delhi court sentences former Union Minister Kalpnath Rai to 10 years RI.
8/19/1993Y. D. Lokurkar, senior journalist, died.
8/15/1921Amrit Rai, novelist and translater, was born .
1/30/1997Mahatma Gandhi's ashes immersed in Sangam.
10/22/1912Gandhiji accompanied Gokhale on tour of South Africa, Laurenco Marques, Mozambique and Zanzibar. He gave up European dress and milk and restricted himself to diet of fresh and dried fruits.
10/2/1994Gandhi Peace Prize instituted on the lines of Nobel Peace Prize on the great leader's 125th birth anniversary.